Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...here. Many Freshmen with no strong predilections one way or another are forced to make a blind choice between they know not what. A few of these will spend two years feeling vaguely that all is not well, until they suddenly realize in their Senior year that History instead of Anthropology is the field for their particular talents, or that their real interest lies in Fine Arts rather than Economics. Many more, however, will try one field, find out what the tutorial system really is, and before the end of their Sophomore year discover something suited to their tastes...
...services has dropped to 64, from an average of 75 last year, but it is interesting to note that most of the decrease has come in the four weeks of the Reading Period and Examination Period when academic pressure has driven the students across the quadrangle to the Library instead. In estimating religious tendencies at Harvard it must, however, be borne in mind that a large number of the students prefer to establish themselves in one or another of the many churches in the vicinity, or are engaged in some other religious activities Sunday morning. Of course these students...
...from command of the important Lemberg garrison General Wladyslaw Sikorski, a onetime (1922-23) Prime Minister of Poland. Reason: rash General Sikorski has just published a book denying credit to Marshal Pilsudski for having stopped by his generalship the Bolshevist advance into Poland in 1920. The credit should go instead, writes General Sikorski, to the supervising strategy of famed French Commander General Max Weygand...
...Instead of putting their money in a shoe, cautious people often buy bonds. There is a feeling of safety in a crisp bond; it is backed up by buildings, lands, machinery, steel, coal?things. People can go and see or touch the things that make their bonds secure. But what about newspaper bonds? Only a fraction of their security is based on buildings and presses; the rest is good-will (of readers and advertisers). Indeed, a cautious investor might be alarmed if he asked himself the question: "How do I know definitely that anyone is going to buy this newspaper...
INTERFERENCE?Proving politely that bad men may sometimes wear monocles instead of masks (TIME...